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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1954
Page
12
J O Bebout attended a Columbia business meeting. Various households report visits and dinners in Sikeston area. Events include card parties, hospital visits, Bible school plans, and public notices on paving bids and estate administration. Local civic groups host picnics and band concerts as summer begins.
Morley Baptist Church held a well attended Pancake Day on Saturday to raise funds for church repairs. Local families traveled from Springfield Liberty Ste. Genevieve East Prairie and St Louis area to join the event and visit relatives during the weekend.
East Prairie honors John Arnold Gullion with the Senior Award for top scholastic rank at the Gamma Sigma Delta banquet. Gullion, a chemistry major from University of Missouri, totaled 124 hours with a near perfect 362-400 average. Also noted are Howard Lee Pritchett’s fourth birthday party with eighteen guests and visiting relatives from St. Louis and local travels of the Watson and Keever families.
The CAPE GIRARDEAU deanery held its quarterly meeting at St Ambrose parish hall in Chaffee on June 6 at 2 pm. Seventeen of twenty affiliates answered, totaling 129 with eleven parish priests. Mrs F D Rolwing of Charlestown was elected deanery president. St Marys Cape Girardeau won the year book award. St Vincent's Cape Girardeau received honorable mention. Parish elections urged for January and deanery elections planned for March.
Miss Annie Latimer and Mr and Mrs Thomas Seaton with son Thomas and daughter Jeannie spent the weekend with Mrs Seaton’s parents Mr and Mrs Oscar Oliver and were joined by Mr and Mrs Robert Lane and family. Other items note travel from Paducah, visits from Maud Stopher Letthined Mongey of Calvert City, Ky, medical updates on Velma Harvell, A V Goodin, Woodrow Kidd and Frank Forbey. Summer term opens at Cape Girardeau teachers college with local enrollees including Gene Boone and several Charleston residents. Mrs Henry Crenshaw and Mrs Moss depart for Oxford and Ole Miss work.
Urgent advertisement seeks buyers for two like new spinet planes rented in the area. Full credit for all payments and drayage will be applied to the purchase price with regular payments. Double trade in for a year old upright regardless of condition. Write immediately before the pianos are returned to the store.
Balance sheet for the Light Department as of December 31 1953 lists assets including cash in hand and in bank, receivables from customers and other departments, fixed assets such as plant and equipment, and funds due from Water and City departments. Liabilities show current payables, accrued taxes, and funds due, with equity from earned surplus and depreciation reserves. Operating statement for 1953 reports residential, commercial, and power service revenues totaling 1,961.52, 4,152.50, 118.45, and 206.63 for street lighting up to year end.
Trust deed from Delia Hadder and G S Hadder dated September 22 1952 to secure a principal note with accrued interest. Trustee Roger A Bailey will sell June 12 1954 at the East Front door of the Court House Benton Missouri to the highest bidder for cash, detailing North Half of Tract 7 Lot 5 Lillon A Smith Addition East of Sikeston, subject to a 20 foot road easement.
Public sale of real estate described in a trust by Ervin L Crowe and Sylvia E Crowe attorney will occur July 3 1954 in Benton Missouri between 9 and 3 at the Courthouse. Lots 1 2 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 and 15 of Brown Crowe Subdivision West of Sikeston. Roger A Bailey trustee.
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